bitnami/sealed-secrets v0.40.0

sealed-secrets-v0.40.0

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v0.40.0 (2026-09-10T16:02:19Z)

New v0.40.0 release!

Changelog

• 9029394 Add imports to force vendoring required codegen tools (#2020)
• 641cd01 Bump Golang to 1.26.8 (#2050)
• 20925c9 Bump distroless/static from 9197324 to f2ea270 in /docker (#2038)
• 2937d2b Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.42.1 to 1.43.0 (#2044)
• 78f5131 Bump github.com/prometheus/client_model from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3 (#2047)
• 0b606ae Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.55.0 to 0.56.0 (#2048)
• ecc9238 Bump k8s.io/api from 0.36.3 to 0.36.4 (#2037)
• 2b184ce Bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.36.3 to 0.36.4 (#2039)
• 5552a01 Bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.36.4 to 0.37.0 (#2041)
• b8609f7 Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.36.3 to 0.36.4 (#2036)
• eddf8c2 Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.36.4 to 0.37.0 (#2042)
• 54c805d Enable encryptedData to be omitted by setting key to null in template (#1871)
• e27ce45 Release carvel package 2.19.3 (#2032)
• 7117727 Release notes 0.40.0 (#2052)
• 32171b6 [Security] Stop /v1/rotate from acting as a decryption oracle (#2049)

Installation Instructions

Cluster-side

Install the SealedSecret CRD and server-side controller into the kube-system namespace:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/bitnami/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.40.0/controller.yaml

Client-side

Install the client-side tool into /usr/local/bin/:

Linux x86_64:

curl -OL "https://github.com/bitnami/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.40.0/kubeseal-0.40.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
tar -xvzf kubeseal-0.40.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz kubeseal
sudo install -m 755 kubeseal /usr/local/bin/kubeseal

macOS:
The kubeseal client is available on homebrew:

brew install kubeseal

MacPorts:

The kubeseal client is available on MacPorts:

port install kubeseal

Nixpkgs

The kubeseal client is available on Nixpkgs: (DISCLAIMER: Not maintained by bitnami)

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.kubeseal

Other OS/Arch:
Binaries for other OS/arch combinations are attached to this release below.

If you just want the latest client tool, it can be installed into
$GOPATH/bin with:

go install github.com/bitnami/sealed-secrets/cmd/kubeseal@main

You can specify a release tag or a commit SHA instead of main.

The go install command will place the kubeseal binary at $GOPATH/bin:

$(go env GOPATH)/bin/kubeseal

Release Notes

Please read the RELEASE_NOTES which contain among other things important information for those upgrading from previous releases.

Thanks!